The Duty of Candour Procedure (Wales) Regulations 2023

Training and support

8.—(1) The responsible body must ensure that the members of staff specified in paragraph (2) receive relevant training and guidance on the candour procedure.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the members of staff are—

(a) those involved in the provision of health care;

(b) those involved in investigating or managing notifiable adverse outcomes;

(c) any other relevant members of staff who are involved in performing or exercising functions in connection with the candour procedure.

(3) The responsible body must provide a member of staff who is involved in a notifiable adverse outcome with details of any services of which the responsible body is aware which may provide assistance or support to any such member of staff, taking into account—

(a) the circumstances relating to the notifiable adverse outcome, and

(b) the member of staff’s needs.

(4) In this regulation, a “member of staff” is any person who works for an NHS body, whether under a contract of employment, a contract for services or as a volunteer, or agency workers (within the meaning of regulation 3 of the Agency Workers Regulations 2010(1)) working under the supervision and direction of an NHS body.

(1)

S.I. 2010/93, amended by S.I. 2011/1941.